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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2021-04-10 06:25 am

The Endless River

On the morning of day twenty one of the month of Kazoo there is a message on the ICP screens around the train. Their SCA's will light up the colour of the Void and show the following information.

World #398050 is a void nexus known locally as Tshering. As a void nexus this world has strong links with the void and the connection through worlds. World #398050 is home to the Endless River. Legends speak of this river being powerful enough to send thoughts from one heart to another across any distance. All that is needed is for you to know who it is you wish to reach.


On-board

The dressing carriage is open, filled with clothing best suited to a pleasant spring day. Light, airy and in a rainbow of joyful colours and florals. One closet is entirely filled with wide-brimmed hats bedecked with ribbons, feathers and ornaments. A stack of picnic baskets and containers filled with an alarming variety of passenger-suitable foodstuffs and flasked drinks sits in one corner, next to rolls of thick, weatherproof blankets in the four team colours.

The large box marked Do Not Use Yet, filled with small, empty jute bags, is hopefully still sat in the Luggage carriage, ready for passengers to grab handfuls of its contents as directed by the announcement.

Upon landing (after an appropriate countdown), the train remains on the surface, its carriages partially curved to form a gathering site for the day. Welcome to Tshering, the eighth void nexus!



A Day for Picnics

Tshering, system #398050, is a strange place, only habitable by grace of the passengers' SCAs. The sky is shot through with colours, a cascade of sunsets, and through it, the void shimmering through it in seams like a child's painting of the milky way. Still, there's a beauty to the chaotic mash of colours that soaks through its landscape, and in the shelter of the forests of towering funghi that dot its surface, the Void can go unseen by its visitors.

The temperature seems mild, suitable for the provided clothing, and if there are weather patterns around the world they've taken the day off. The funghi are sturdy enough that what air flow there is doesn't disturb their stalks, and carved grooves and holds in some of the larger examples indicate that climbing them to sit atop their glowing crowns is eminently possible, and, in fact, encouraged.

the Endless River

The Endless River is a font of pure chaos, flowing from a multitude of small rivulets across the area to a central reservoir, from which it pours directly upwards, away from Tshering's surface and out of sight, beyond the world's atmosphere.

Anything bagged and placed within the Endless River will also flow upwards and soon be out of sight, passing, presumably, into the Void. Scattered across the surface of Tshering are small, glittering pebbles, as described in the announcement.

The stones are pleasantly cool to the touch, and all passengers need to do is feel. Messages can be in any form that the Voidtreckers wish. Perhaps words, perhaps feelings, perhaps an image from their mind into the stone. Perhaps a mixture. Once they begin their message the stone will glow slightly and continue to glow as they secure it in the bag and cast it into the river. They will feel, almost instinctively, that they need to focus as they do so, thinking of the person they wish to reach all the while.

There are plenty of bags and many more stones; passengers will not be limited in their sendings.
ourtomorrow: (placate)

[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2021-04-13 10:20 am (UTC)(link)
Wormmon has to think. He has to put a claw to his face. He was supposed...to keep track?

Ken, fortunately, oversaw everything that happened in the kitchen - and his utter lack of imagination can come in handy, sometimes. "Some fish, some dried fruit."
luckydragonsfoot: (Heckye)

[personal profile] luckydragonsfoot 2021-04-13 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oooo, fruit ones..." He's not asking which is which, just doing a bit of eenie-meenie-minie-moe over the rice balls though. "Alrigh', let's test my luck...!"

...

He's grabbed a fish one.

There's about half a second to correct his mistake before he takes a bite out of that sucker.
ourtomorrow: (DGMN02bd_EP42_15216)

[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2021-04-13 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Wormmon doesn't know. Wormmon has no idea.

Ken, however, reaches out instinctively. "Ah------"

IS HE GOING TO MAKE IT?!
luckydragonsfoot: (say again-)

[personal profile] luckydragonsfoot 2021-04-17 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"-mn."

Nope.

"...Hmnh..." Chew. Chew.

Swallow. "...Fish ones ain't too bad either I guess."

Well,
ourtomorrow: (DGMN02bd_EP42_14862)

[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2021-04-17 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, indeed. Ken sighs, adrenaline draining.

Wormmon, for his part, shuffles in place. "Eheee...."

Someone's eating his food! This must be why Ken-chan's mama makes food all the time, huh? Because feeding people feels this nice!

He likes when Orange Team is on cooking duty.
luckydragonsfoot: (Heckye)

[personal profile] luckydragonsfoot 2021-04-18 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, with Wormmon acting like that, he's gotta give a thumbs up!! Even more encouragement.

Soon enough the riceball is gone- it sure didn't take long to get through. "Alrigh'..! I'll jus' have t' try until I find th' fruit one! Second time lucky, righ'?"
ourtomorrow: (sweatdrop)

[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2021-04-19 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Should Ken give it away, then....?

No, probably not. That seems like it would be cheating, and seeing his rice balls being eaten is making Wormmon happy. "Good luck."
luckydragonsfoot: (ah shit)

[personal profile] luckydragonsfoot 2021-04-22 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Alright. Second time lucky! Eenie...meenie...minie...

He grabs one, and before his teeth have even properly sunk in, winces.

noooooooo

"...fff-ff ahgehm..." Fish...again...

He's still eating all of it though.
ourtomorrow: (bashful)

[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2021-04-22 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Ken reaches out and...delicately...rotates the container of rice balls. He's not going to ruin Jounouchi's guessing game, but he can at least give a hint.

Wormmon chuckles, then realizes that was probably a little mean. But the man made a funny face!

Still. He must be a good Digimon.

"Sorry."
luckydragonsfoot: (Heckye)

[personal profile] luckydragonsfoot 2021-04-25 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Awwww, he can't be mad at Wormmon...

Just look at the little guy! "Man, I totally would've gotten it on my third try," he insists, grabbing a fruit one regardless. "An' hey, nothin' to be sorry for! These'r delicious!"
ourtomorrow: (DGMN02bd_EP37_19964)

[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2021-04-25 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
He got a compliment! Wormmon knows what that means, but he wants to hear it from the very best source.

He twists to look up at his partner. "Did I do a good job, Ken-chan?"

Ken nods. "What would you like to eat, Wormmon?"

"Anything I can split with you."

The rice balls are not the only thing high in sucrose over here.
luckydragonsfoot: (nyh-)

[personal profile] luckydragonsfoot 2021-04-27 11:08 am (UTC)(link)
Awwww that's sweet. That's painfully sweet, that's...

"Hn. Dunno if y' can split a rice ball."

That's what he's contributing to this.